I can’t help linking Hofstadter’s very funny and apropos “Person Paper”:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Wikipedia points out that the singular or indeterminate-number “they” has a pretty long history in the english language—Shakespeare used it, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I can’t help linking Hofstadter’s very funny and apropos “Person Paper”:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Wikipedia points out that the singular or indeterminate-number “they” has a pretty long history in the english language—Shakespeare used it, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they